Industrial Revolution
This new energy source allowed factories to be built away from coal mines during the second industrial revolution.
What is electricity?
Nations expanded overseas mainly to gain resources and increase this type of global influence.
What is power?
By 1910, almost all of this continent had been divided into European colonies.
What is Africa?
After the rebellion of 1857, Britain ruled India directly under this system of government.
What is the British Raj?
This scientist introduced the theory of natural selection in 1859.
Who is Charles Darwin?
Industrial nations needed resources like rubber, copper, and oil from other regions; these are generally called this.
What are raw materials?
This meeting in 1884-1885 divided much of Africa among European powers.
What is the Berlin Conference?
This Ethiopian leader defeated Italy at the Battle of Adwa in 1896.
Who is Menelik II?
Dutch rulers forced Indonesian farmers to grow export crops such as this beverage bean.
What is coffee?
This belief misused Darwin's ideas to justify the dominance of stronger societies over weaker ones.
What is Social Darwinism?
Large companies like this American corporation produced about half of the world's steel during the late 1800s
What is U.S. Steel?
This king of Belgium controlled the Congo Free State and exploited it for rubber and ivory.
Who is Leopold II?
European colonial borders often ignored differences in these things like language, culture, and ethnicity
What are ethnic or cultural groups?
Britain built thousands of miles of this transportation system in India to move goods and troops quickly
What are railroads?
Europeans often promoted imperial pride using propaganda through advertisements, packaging, and these mailed picture cards.
What are postcards?